Stolen Jars’ Video for “Gold Age” Glints – AdHoc

Stolen Jars’ Video for “Gold Age” Glints

The video is a grandiose and artful representation of the song’s emotional force.

There’s a vastness that Cody Fitzgerald and company shoulder in “Gold Age,” the new song off Stolen Jars’ glint EP. From the very first organ chime to Fitzgerald’s ecstatically hushed vocals, “Gold Age” communicates a subdued grandiosity in its artful sparseness. The streaky skyspaces of two landscapes—the pastel pink atop rocky soil and the chilly blue above an urban street at dusk—further convey this immensity in Jenelle Pearing’s spectalur video for “Gold Age.”

But this enormity neither weighs the song down nor crushes the glimmering moments that make Stolen Jars’ catalog so precious. The skittering drum blasts, the impassioned yelps, and the syncopated guitar strumming all hint at microscopic imabalances that “Gold Age” elegantly glides across in its delicate agility. “Gold Age” retains a certain nimbleness, a nimbleness incarnated by Nora Alami’s graceful spins and leaps in Pearing’s video. Like the song itself, whose teetering instrumental elements seem to threaten a collapse as Fitzgerald’s voice slides from a whisper to a yell, Alami’s choreography nearly topples over itself: at one point, she appears to lose her balance before vainly attempting to prop herself up again.

Pearing’s video, a companion to the visual album’s track, dramatizes Stolen Jars’ coming to terms with the sheer emotional force of its music. Quivering yet radiant, “Gold Age” swells into something more substantive than just visual and sonic surfaces, a synthesis of palettes more grandiose than the sum of its parts.

Watch the stunning video below, and make sure to see Stolen Jars bring their weightless intensity to the Silent Barn July 11.

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